US Patent Issued to Optum on Aug. 11 for "Calculating viral transfer risk and reducing exposure through occupancy optimization" (Minnesota, Michigan, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,221, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Optum Inc. (Minnetonka, Minn.).

"Calculating viral transfer risk and reducing exposure through occupancy optimization" was invented by Brian Decker (Bonifacius, Minn.), Hadi D. Halim (Kendall Park, N.J.), Gregory J. Boss (Saginaw, Mich.) and Ranjan Prasad (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein relate to viral transfer risk management. In example embodiments, an apparatus is configured to retrieve a first user identifier associated with a first client computing entity. The apparatus is further configured to determine, based at least in part on a first transfer ris...